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f44 package retirements
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 07 Feb '26

07 Feb '26

Hi, So now that the Fedora 44 Change <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.10_and_Stackage_24> is done and landed <https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4321bd08b4> in f44/f45, a few reflections and next actions. Overall this time actually went rather smoothly (in terms of package updating) *except* some ghc hadrian issues around switching from 9.8 to 9.10 which changed some hash paths and broke the rts build on POWER (which was stressful just before the end: both only broke *after* ghc had been updated to 9.10, so it was painful). There is also the unsatisfactory upstream downgrade (or correctly, lack of upgrade) of deepseq, which is handled by an obsolete, which seems to work well enough. I will release cabal-rpm-2.3.2 shortly, which was used for all the packages. For F45, I am thinking to drop prof maybe for slow fedora archs like s390x and riscv64 perhaps. Also due to having to use a different ghc-lib-parser version bundled with ormolu, it occurred to me I would like to try not shipping bundled libraries as far as possible going forward. Conversely this could allow us also to ship newer cabal-install say. I plan to implement such handling of bundled (but not shipped) libraries in cabal-rpm. Our technical packaging debt continues to grow, sniffle, with more bundled libraries. There are 5 packages that failed to build with ghc-9.10 and I think can be retired now (all are already obsoleted by `ghc-obsoletes`): - ghc-data-default-instances-containers - ghc-data-default-instances-dlist - ghc-data-default-instances-old-locale These 3 were deprecated upstream a while back and are incompatible with the newer data-default in lts24. I am the owner and will retire all 3. - ghc-bytestring-nums (mathstuf) - ghc-with-location (qulogic) These 2 could probably be resurrected if desired but I honestly don't see compelling reasons to keep them around. So I would suggest to drop them, though if you feel otherwise I could help perhaps - let me know. Finally I opened a couple of package reviews which are needed for subpackaged libraries used by more than one package: - filelock: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2434852 - file-io: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2435005 I would appreciate help with reviewing. We really really need to streamline Haskell package reviews: at this point basically just checking the licensing is more or less sufficient: there is no need to go through the complete generic checklist. I may start to add such a canned sentence to Review Requests. Next, onto 9.12 and LTS 25 (to be released) for F45, I guess. Let me know if you notice anything amiss or unexpected in F44. Jens

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Rawhide Haskell GHC has been updated to 9.10
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Hi, I am happy to announce that Changes/Haskell GHC 9.10 and Stackage 24 <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.10_and_Stackage_24> has landed in Rawhide and is now testable. This includes ghc-9.10, cabal-install-3.12, hlint-3.10, pandoc-3.7, stack-3.9 and also many library updates (see the update <https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4321bd08b4> for the full list). Thanks, Jens

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Change proposal: GHC 9.10 for Fedora 44
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Hi, I am planning to submit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.10_and_Stackage_24 for Fedora 44. This Change also proposes to drop all Haskell -prof subpackages from F44+ (except for ghc core libs). Let me know what you think. Jens

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Rawhide updated to ghc-9.8
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I am happy to announce that Rawhide Haskell was updated to GHC 9.8 over the last week (published to repos on Monday). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.8_and_Stackage_23 Unfortunately this didn't land in time for F42, and so most likely won't be backported. I am not aware of any particular problems, but do report if you see something. There are 3 packages to retire soon, though they already have obsoletes. Cheers, Jens

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ghc-9.8 for F42
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Just a heads-up that I have submitted https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.8_and_Stackage_23 for Fedora 42 (ahead of tomorrow's submission deadline). Let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks, Jens

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Re: GHC 9.8.4 is now available
by Jens Petersen 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Thank you, Ben Latest Stackage Nightly <https://www.stackage.org/nightly-2024-12-05> is now on 9.8.4. I also updated Fedora ghc9.8 <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ghc9.8> and it is available already in updates-testing repos, including epel9-testing. Jens

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help with 2 Haskell package reviews
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Hi, I would like to ask for help with a couple of packages reviews: NEW ghc-select-rpms: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309209 NEW ghc-fedora-releases: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322700 They are both needed by fbrnch and the next releases of koji-tool and fedora-repoquery respectively. The reviews should be straightforward , following Fedora Haskell policy - they are generated by cabal-rpm (eg cabal-rpm diff should show any tweaks). Thank you, Jens

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update on GHC 9.6 & LTS 22 change
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Hi, A late update on the GHC 9.6 & Stackage LTS 22 Change <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.6_and_Stackage_22> for F41. Most of the work (building) is now complete in a rawhide sidetag, which I hope to merge later today. Mostly due to mtl-2.3 the following packages fail and will all likely be retired: ghc-ConfigFile ghc-HSH ghc-MonadCatchIO-mtl ghc-MonadCatchIO-transformers ghc-cprng-aes ghc-crypto-random ghc-highlighting-kate ghc-language-ecmascript ghc-libxml-sax ghc-monad-journal ghc-pattern-arrows ghc-regexpr I still need to fix: rhbzquery Also planning to retire these deprecated packages: ghc-connection ghc-cryptohash ghc-x509 ghc-x509-store ghc-x509-system ghc-x509-validation which are obsoleted by the new ghc-crypton-*. Otherwise the building went pretty smoothly this time. Jens

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adopting @haskell-lang-sig
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

Hi, We have discussed this in the past and the latest unwanted package-retirement is now the last straw for me, so I want to go ahead with adding @haskell-lang-sig group to all Haskell ghc-* library packages at least. See https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10891 and https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3143 Happy New Year, Jens

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ghc-9.6 for F40
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

Hi, I prepared https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Haskell_GHC_9.6_and_Stackage_22 to update rawhide to ghc-9.6, now that LTS 22 was just released. Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for improving the overall process. Cheers, Jens

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